• A minority government, minority cabinet, minority administration, or a minority parliament is a government and cabinet formed in a parliamentary system...
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  • In Canada's parliamentary system of responsible government, minority governments occur when no party has a majority of seats in the legislature. Typically...
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    thirteen minority governments have been elected at the federal level. There have also been two minority governments resulting from governments being replaced...
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  • political science, minoritarianism (or minorityism) is a neologism for a political structure or process in which a minority group of a population has a certain...
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    party forms a government without the support of a coalition, as is typically the case with majority governments, but even a minority government may consist...
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  • majority in the government, whereas minority coalition governments do not hold the majority of legislative seats. A coalition government may also be created...
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    Parliament), the centre-right-coalition began as one of the smallest minority governments in French history and it will have to rely on support from other...
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  • have whips, as well as majority and minority leaders. The whip is also the assistant majority or assistant minority leader. Both houses of Congress, the...
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    passes a motion of no confidence in the government. Early elections are more likely to occur during minority governments because the prime minister does not...
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    election, which gave the NDP the balance of power in Paul Martin's minority government. In May 2005, the NDP supported the Liberal budget in exchange for...
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  • first brief minority government in 1928 which lasted for 18 days only. After the 1936 election the Labour Party formed a new minority government, which had...
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  • influence, during periods of Liberal minority governments. Sub-national branches of the NDP have formed the government in six provinces (Ontario, Manitoba...
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  • Look up minority in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Minority may refer to: Minority government, formed when a political party does not have a majority...
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    Trudeau guided the Liberals to a minority government victory in the 2019 federal election. In 2020, his government responded to the COVID-19 pandemic...
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  • majority government in the 2015 federal election. In both the federal elections of 2019 and 2021, the party was re-elected with a minority government. The...
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    four years. Minority governments generally last for a shorter period. The shortest minority government, Arthur Meighen's second government, lasted just...
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  • its own, or be a coalition government of multiple parties. This is as opposed to a minority government, where the government doesn't have a majority, and...
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  • (1857-1858); Minority government (1858-1859). Minority government (1859); Opposition (1859-1865). Opposition (1865-1866); Minority government (1866-1868)...
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    The Second Indira Gandhi government, formed in November 1969 and dissolved in March 1971, was the first minority government in independent India. After...
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  • party governed with two minority governments after the federal elections of 2006 and 2008. It then won a majority government in the 2011 federal election...
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    A visible minority (French: minorité visible) is defined by the Government of Canada as "persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian...
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    term as prime minister, his second minority government. Though the Liberals were hoping to win a majority government to govern alone, the results were...
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    same day as the 2024 Saxony state election. The outgoing government was a minority government consisting of The Left, the Social Democratic Party (SPD)...
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    government from July to September 2024, before Michel Barnier was appointed prime minister. The Attal cabinet was a three-party minority government as...
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  • Westminster system, confidence and supply is an arrangement under which a minority government (one which does not control a majority in the legislature) receives...
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  • opposition to the Conservative Party in the early 1920s, forming two minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in the 1920s and early 1930s. Labour served...
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    Canada. The Liberal government of Prime Minister Paul Martin lost its majority but was able to continue in office as a minority government after the election...
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    lowest vote share for a party that would go on to form a single-party minority government. The Liberals lost the popular vote to the Conservative Party by...
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  • The term "minority group" has different usages, depending on the context. According to its common usage, the term minority group can simply be understood...
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    of government at a national level (Anderson Dawson had led a short-lived Labour government in Queensland in December 1899), though his was a minority government...
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